{"id":193585,"date":"2025-03-15T07:08:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T05:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-harare-mayor-mafume-defied-council-to-endorse-controversial-multi-million-dollar-geo-pomona-deal\/"},"modified":"2025-03-15T07:08:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T05:08:54","slug":"zimbabwe-harare-mayor-mafume-defied-council-to-endorse-controversial-multi-million-dollar-geo-pomona-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-harare-mayor-mafume-defied-council-to-endorse-controversial-multi-million-dollar-geo-pomona-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Harare Mayor Mafume Defied Council to Endorse Controversial Multi-Million Dollar Geo Pomona Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">HARARE Mayor Jacob Mafume endorsed a deal for the takeover of waste collection by Geo Pomona despite rejection by councillors, it has emerged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Geo Pomona was granted approval by the Ministry of Local Government to manage refuse collection in Harare, with Mafume backing the agreement. As part of the arrangement, the company will take on workers from the City Council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">However, according to council minutes from December 2024, the Harare City Council Environmental Management Committee rejected the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503140120.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARARE Mayor Jacob Mafume endorsed a deal for the takeover of waste collection by Geo Pomona despite rejection by councillors, it has emerged. Geo Pomona was granted approval by the Ministry of Local Government to manage refuse collection in Harare, with Mafume backing the agreement. As part of the arrangement, the company will take on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,11087,6158,7012,41611,10746,9180,48218,500,36809,7625,14628,257,42375,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-193585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-controversial","tag-council","tag-deal","tag-defied","tag-dollar","tag-endorse","tag-geo","tag-harare","tag-mafume","tag-mayor","tag-multimillion","tag-news","tag-pomona","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}